§ 4. Major DAVID DAVIESasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has taken any steps to approach the Governments of Allied countries with a view to the formation at an early date of a permanent standing Committee which shall be entrusted with the duties of examining and reporting upon a practical organisation of a league of free nations to enforce peace after the War: and, if so, whether he can inform the House what replies he has received as a result of those invitations?
§ Lord R. CECILI doubt if the suggestion contained in the first part of the question would be useful, or indeed practicable. But I have no doubt that the proposals for a League of Nations are being carefully examined in each of the Allied countries as they are here, and this seems the most practical course at present.